Instead, the publisher will only release five new games during its current financial year, including the previously-released Battleborn, plus this autumn's Mafia 3, Civilization VI, WWE 2K17 and NBA 2K17.

"Just to clarify, we've announced the entire release schedule for the year and that's what you should expect our release schedule to be and that's what our outlook is based on," Zelnick said during the firm's Q4 2016 earnings call last night. "Any changes would be performance based largely."